Chapter 18
Hurt more than Once
A/N: Hi, long time no see…
Krys: It's only been a couple of days.
A/N: Oh yeah.
Kiara: Anyways, the tournament is almost over! I can't believe it! But I bet you guys can figure out who wins.
Krys: I think Kiara's said enough.
A/N: Typical. Enjoy the chapter.
Rei left the room early to get in some practice before the match against the Demolishion Boys. He began walking down the hall. He then saw Mariah coming his way and immediately turned the other way.
"Where were you yesterday?" Mariah asked.
"Gone," said Rei not looking at her.
"What's wrong?" asked Mariah noticing the tone of his voice.
"Why don't you just leave me alone. I'm sure Lee would love your company," he said.
"What ever do you mean?" Mariah asked trying to sound innocent. (Krys: 'What ever do you mean'? If you want to appear innocent at least try to sound convincing.)
"I saw you last night with Lee. I saw the whole thing!" yelled Rei turning around to give her a nice cold glare that was almost as good as Kai's. Mariah knew why he was upset but he didn't understand. Why would he? (Krys: Watch it. Just watch it…)
"He…he told me that he loved me. What could I do?" she asked.
"You could have pushed him away and said no! You could have at least considered the feelings I had for you. I have always been loyal to you and all it takes is a few sweet words for you to turn on me?!" cried Rei
"Rei…" Mariah began but she didn't know what to say.
"Hi Rei!" said a voice from behind them. Rei gazed back at Krys with warm eyes.
"Hey," he replied.
"So that's where you were last night, with her! You think I'm bad, you try and get me back by spending the night with that bitch!" Mariah yelled. (Krys: rolls up sleeve Why you little…)
"I didn't do anything wrong Mariah 'cause we're through! I've moved on and I think you better leave because there is nothing more to be said!" (Krys: Yay!) he shouted turning around and walking towards Krys. Mariah ran off, tears running down her cheeks.
"I'm sorry if I did anything to your relationship…" Krys said shyly.
"Na…like I said, it was over," he said reassuringly, wrapping his arms around Krys. "You're the one I love." Rei let his head rest on her shoulder as he held her tight. Aia peered out of the room. She and everyone else had heard the whole thing. Aia couldn't believe Lee would do something like that and she couldn't believe how nasty Rei could get. The only other time she had ever see him like that was when she tried to steal Drigger from him. Aia shrugged it off and turned around to see everyone else staring at the door open mouthed. She guessed none of them had ever seen Rei like that. Aia laughed at all of them.
"You look like a bunch of frogs waiting for flies!" she said laughing.
"What'd you say?" asked Kiara, her tone of voice rising.
"I said…Ow! What was that for?" asked Aia after being hit by Kiara on the back.. Now she chased Kiara to pulverise her.
"Haha! Gotta catch me first!' yelled Kiara racing out of the door and Aia in hot persuit. (In pyjamas I might add) A sweatdrop rolled down Rei's head.
"Ah…they're just…excited?" he said trying to think of a reason why 2 girls from his team would be running down the hall in their PJs.
"Right…" Krys began but couldn't finish because just then there was a loud crash and the sound of breaking glass. Everyone ran down the hall to the source of the noise and saw that Aia and Kiara had managed to crash into the food trolley. Broken pplates and glass littered the floor.
"Remind me not to do that again," said Kiara holding her leg. Max rushed down and helped Aia get off of the bed of glass. Lucky for her, she only had some minor cuts. Tyson was cracking up.
"Oh man! You should see your faces! You look so stupid!"
"I wouldn't talk monkey boy!" snapped Kiara.
"Are you guys alright?" Rei asked when he and Krys finally got there. Kai helped Kiara up. Her face was covered in cuts and her leg was bleeding badly. The trolly lady was yelling and swearing in Italian.
"We'd better go," suggested Kenny.
"We're right behind you," Aia said as they prceede down the hall and left the trolly lady to clean up. Kiara was limping, she had some glass lodged in her leg and it made it almost impossible to walk. Aia noticed Kiara limping and then noticed the blood. As expected, she immediatelt fainted. Max caught her before she hit the ground. Kai rolled his eyes and picked Kiara up.
"What are you doing?" asked Kiara.
"What does it look like I'm doing? I carrying you," said Kai. Max noticed what time it was on Aia's watch.
"Um guys, we'd better hurry up. We only have 20 minutes," explained Max. He and Rei supported Aia between them. Krys opened the door when they got to the room. Max and Rei put Aia on her bed, she started to come around. When she opened her eyes she saw Tyson's face.
"Ahhhhh!" she screamed.
"Yep, she's awake," said Tyson uninterested. Aia looked around the room, she saw Rei sitting beside Krys on his bed. Kenny was getting some last minute data. Max and Tyson were sitting beside her.
"Where's Kiara?" she asked.
"In the bathroom with Kai," replied Max.
Kai placed a cotton swab on Kiara's open flesh, causing her to wince at the pain. Kai then took out some tweezers, removed the piece of glass and wrapped the wound.
"Better?" asked Kai.
"Yeah," she said testing her leg. Kai placed Kiara back up on the counter. His face was level with hers. They started moving towards each other.
"Hey, I need a…okay? I'll be leaving now," said tyson closing the door quickly.
"Hasn't he ever heard of knocking first?" Kiara asked.
"This is Tyson we're talking about," explained Kai. Tyson closed the bathroom door behind him.
"Crap! We only have 5 minutes left!" yelled Aia. She ran to the door. "get out! I need to change!"
Kiara heard banging on the door. She sighed.
"We only have 5 minutes left!"
"What!?" yelled Kiara jumping off the counter. "Ow…" Kai opened the door and Aia rushed in, pushing them out. Once Tyson, Max and Kiara got changed as well, they hurried down the hall to the stadium.
A/N: Will they make it in time? Stay tuned for the next chapter!
Kiara: You know, you really don't have a life.
Krys: Well at least her not having a life resulted in us getting a pretty cool story!
Kiara: We wrote some too!
Krys: No duh.
A/N: Shut up about me! Anyways I bet you Mariah haters must have liked Rei's argument with her, although now there's new competition…Please review and see you all next chapter when the Bladebreakers take on the Demolishion Boys.
Kiara: She's doing it again!
Krys: The stupid newscaster thingy majigy!